Repeatedly, the dancers line up on one side of the stage, then collapse forward and cross the expanse in gorgeously mobile tableaus, turning, falling, stretching.
While well acted, Jan Sverak's film frequently skids into maudlin tableaus, turning a story that sounds vaguely nutritious into "empty carbs, like malted milk balls" (Elvis Mitchell).
Burke had associated the beautiful with weakness and femininity and the sublime with strength and masculinity; Wollstonecraft turns these definitions against him, arguing that his theatrical tableaux turn Burke's readers the citizens into weak women who are swayed by show.
This nasty little tableau also turns up in the final scene of one of two videos that use stop-action animation, crudely made puppets, toys, ordinary household materials and dramatic lighting to produce ridiculous horror-movie-like scenarios.
The Spitzer tableau, in turn, replicated one from 2004 — the press conference at which James McGreevey, then the governor of New Jersey, announced, with his wife at his side, that he was gay and planned to resign.
The wax figures are arranged in tableaux that are, by turns, serious and whimsical.
Whether she was lying on the floor, rolling about or falling to her knees, the tableau took a surreal turn when Gillette's open-mouthed scream morphed into the dancer plunging her face into a bowl of water.
Meanwhile, Glass and Patron turned into a tableau of shifting sexual-power dynamics, the men variously hypnotising and hypnotised by twigs.
This Shiite town of 80,000, a once-bucolic village of fishing and farming turned into a tableau of urban distress, is so restive that even opposition leaders shake their heads at its defiance.
Instead, the ceremonies at the gravesite today were a tableau of how catastrophic Sept. 11 turned out to be for Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
